Seventy-Five Years Later, The Hobbit Still Enchants Us
Seventy-five years ago, on September 21, 1937, the world received The Hobbit or There and Back Again, a strong and sweet message from...
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Cristeros’ Rallying Cry for Christ
In the 1920s, when Marxist-influenced politicians in Mexico virtually outlawed practicing the Christian religion, both priests and parishioners stood their ground. ...
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Armstrong Symbolized American Confidence, Achievement
Neil Armstrong was a quiet hero in an age of antiheroes. In an era that made cult heroes of amoral spies and cops...
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One Hundred Years After the Kuomintang
Today, August 25, the predecessor of another Marxist regime celebrates its 100th anniversary.The Kuomintang, or Chinese Nationalist Party, has uniformly been given a...
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The 200th Anniversary of the Naming of “Old Ironsides”
Two hundred years ago today — during the War of 1812 — perhaps the most storied vessel in the U.S. Navy, the Constitution, earned...
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Spanish-American War: Trial Run for Interventionism
U.S. Secretary of State John Hay called the Spanish-American War of 1898 a “splendid little war.” Superficially, the description seemed apt. The war...
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Seventy-Five Years After Stalin’s Great “Operation Kulak” Reign of Terror
Seventy-five years ago, on August 5, 1937, one of the most horrific — and most ignored — episodes in human history began. “Operation Kulak” ("kulak"...
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Recalling the End of the Fairness Doctrine
Twenty-five years ago this month, the Federal Communications Commission ended the “Fairness Doctrine,” which in the name of "fairness" infringed on the freedom...
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Model T Ford — The Freedom Machine
In the process of providing the world with improved transportation, Henry Ford accelerated the automotive industry, was a factor in the United States’...
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Seventy-five Years After FDR’s Court-packing Scheme Failed
Seventy-five years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court in order to insure that his extra-constitutional New Deal policies...
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Black and Conservative: A Tribute to George Schuyler
A look at George Schuyler, a forgotten black conservative, one of the most prolific editorialists, black or white, that twentieth century America has ever...
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July 1, 1937: Gestapo Arrests Protestant Resistance Leader Bishop Niemöeller
Seventy-five years ago in Nazi Germany, on July 1, 1937, the Gestapo arrested war hero and champion of Protestant resistance Bishop Martin Niemöeller,...
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224th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Constitution
Two hundred and twenty-four years ago, on June 21, 1788, after three days of debate and by a final vote of 57-47, members...
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Fifty Years After the Port Huron Statement
Fifty years ago, on June 15, 1962, the radical left-wing SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) issued their Port Huron Statement opposing capitalism,...
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Twenty-Five Years After Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
A quarter of a century ago President Ronald Reagan demanded that Gorbachev "tear down this wall," and the wall came down, but the...
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